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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Requital \Re*quit"al\ (-al), n. [From {Requite}.]
The act of requiting; also that which requites; return, good
or bad for anything done in a good sense compensation;
recompense; as the requital of services; in a bad sense
retaliation, or punishment; as the requital of evil deeds.
No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital
can efface their love. --Waller.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
requital
n : an act of requiting; returning in kind
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